3. What the hell is a Cullen?

I woke up around six thirty and couldn't fall back asleep. I decided as long as I was up I might as well get ready. I got out of bed and went over to my dresser to find something suitable to wear; I grabbed a pair of dark skinny jeans and a teal and purple top that flowed down to my upper thigh and had a swoop neck. I walked out into the hall and into the shared bathroom! Oh my god this sucks.

I locked the bathroom door so Charlie wouldn't walk in and started the shower. After shampooing my hair, blow drying it, I put it into my rollers and put on some eyeliner, mascara, and eye shadow. After I finished up in the bathroom I went back to my bedroom and found a pair of gold Manolo Blahnik heels, gold hoops and a matching necklace.

I flitted down the stairs and into the kitchen to scrounge up something decent. I settled on the frozen waffles and popped then into the toaster. I grabbed a glass, a plate, milk, and syrup and got my waffles from the toaster.

I ate quickly and put my dishes in the sink; the ones from last night were still there, they wouldn't be if Charlie would spend some of his mega bucks and invest in a dishwasher. I glanced at the clock on the microwave and saw that I had ten minutes before I needed to go. I grabbed my white Chanel purse, a white blazer, and coffee in one of those to-go cups, then locked the door behind me and got into my car unwillingly.

The first time I saw the school I drove right past it. How was I supposed to know that six brick buildings actually counts as a school here? I mean they weren't even connected; they looked like the buildings at my grandmother's retirement home.

There were already a few kids here; I didn't feel like coming to school ridiculously early, why should I have to anyway? If I was late to class for getting my schedule, I'm sure they would just excuse it since it was my first day.

I parked my car and walked to the front office. It was only slightly drizzling so there was no need to run, knowing that I'd probably trip in these shoes anyway. When I opened the door I almost groaned, more green. Don't these people ever get tired of it, why don't they try a new color; you know maybe give the trees some brown or purple flowers, anything!

I walked up to the desk where some old fat lady sat behind a computer. Ever heard of Pilates, they would help. I thought as I looked over the counter and at the woman again.

"Excuse me," I said impatiently, while strumming my nails against the counter, "I'm Bella Swan." I informed her, my tone came out rude but I couldn't help it if I really didn't want to be here.

"Oh," she sounded a little taken aback due to the fact that my voice made it clear I really wasn't happy, "H-here's your schedule and a map around the school. Have a good day." She said, she sounded like she meant the exact opposite. I smirked at her and walked towards my car to park closer to the main part of the school.

By now all of the kids had went to class and I was the only one driving around. While looking for a place to park I noticed that my car was the newest and nicest one here. As I was about to pull into a space I saw a Volvo in my rear view mirror, next to my car it was the nicest one around. I parked my car and got out. I put my coffee on the roof of my car and reached back inside for my purse.

When I came back up I saw the people who were in the Volvo emerge. They were gorgeous! Like the models from my moms company, only better.

One girl was tall and was loaded in the curves department. She had platinum blonde hair that had a gentle wave to it and reached her middle back. The other girl was short and really thin, but her body still had nice curves to it. Her hair was black and spiky, almost resembling a pixie.

The guys were all different from each other but all very good looking. The first was tall and had a lanky build with blonde hair that reached down and covered one eye. The other was taller and was built! You could easily make out his six pack beneath the shirt he wore. His hair was dark and curly.

The last guy was gorgeous. For me there were four categories: Ugly, Ok, Cute, and Hot. This guy was in a category all his own. He was lean and not quite as muscular as the other two but he still had a nice build. His hair was a startling shade of bronze that I had never seen before and it seemed to have a mind of its own.

The warning bell rang and I fled from the parking lot where my first class was located.

Edward's point of view

We were running late this morning as I pushed the car faster down the road to school. Emmett wouldn't leave the house until he beat the game he was playing on his Xbox. So now we had about five minutes to make it to class, it wouldn't be that bad though because all the kids were already in their classes so we could just run.

As we pulled into the parking lot a silver Nissan 350z pulled into the spot I was about to take. I knew if Rosalie wasn't so caught up in thinking how nice the car was she would have been pissed because someone took our spot. I pulled into a spot that was about five cars down from where we usually park.

While we were walking towards the school the person in the other car stepped out, she was about five eight (due to the shoes she was wearing) and had curves. She had long mahogany hair that was curled loosely down her back and framed her heart shaped face. Her skin was almost as pale as ours but made her beautiful brown eyes pop even more. Apparently she had a good sense of style because Alice was mentally drooling over her shoes.

She was beautiful, well for a human of course. Hell, who am I kidding; she'd even give Rosalie a run for her money which Rosalie now realized and wasn't too pleased about. (Can we say 'self absorbed,' I think we can) The girl reached back down in her car and pulled out a white purse, Chanel according to Alice. The bell rang and the girl flew of to class, and that's when her scent hit me.

It was like freesia only in a more concentrated form, if it smelled this good I could only imagine how good it would taste.

But why imagine when you try it for yourself? The monster inside me voiced. When the thought hit me it sent me into predator mode. I crouched down ready to spring and attack the girl; I was so focused on the thought of the girl's warm blood dripping down my throat that I didn't notice Alice calling orders until Emmett had his arms around me, holding me back. I thrashed against his arms and snapped at him, trying anything I could to get loose and have that blood.

"Edward calm down please, you can't do that to her." Alice spoke, "Go hunt, I'll give your teacher an excuse why you're not there, just go and get something." She spoke soothingly.

Once I had calmed down enough and let Alice's words sink in horror washed over my face as I thought of what I was about to do, I could have killed some innocent girl whose life was just beginning. I was a monster. I shook off Emmett's arms and ran to the forest at top speed.

I smelled a herd of deer and changed my direction and ran quickly to the clearing where they were grazing.

After draining three deer my eyes were back to their topaz color and the fire that was burning in my throat from the scent of the girl had vanished. I turned and ran back to school grounds and to my first period class.

Bella's point of view

First period was a bore, history of course. God how much time can you actually spend discussing dead people, I always thought that they should have a class discussing what was going on today like with the celebrities and all the shit they do. It sure as hell would be a lot more interesting than this.

Finally the bell rang and as I was gathering my things I felt a tap on my shoulder. I looked up and saw a boy with blonde hair and baby blue eyes. He smiled at me and ran a hand through his spiky hair nervously.

"Hey I'm Mike, you're Isabella, right?" he said while leaning against the desk across from me, trying to look cool I suppose.

"Bella." I said as I stood up and started walking towards the door.

"Hey wait!" Mike called, I stopped, "so what's your next class?" he asked

"Spanish and then trig." I said uninterestedly

"Oh do you need help finding your class?" he asked, overly hopeful I might add

"No I'm pretty sure I can find it by myself, but thanks anyways." I only added the 'thanks' in there because I really didn't want him to go around and start saying how stuck up I was and all that other shit. I walked out of the room and out of the building into the one next to it and to my class.

Spanish was so boring I wanted to shoot myself! We were just learning some vocabulary crap that I learned last year, boring! Class finally finished and I rushed out into the hallway. As I passed by two girls I heard them whispering about me.

"Is she a Cullen?" one girl asked

"I don't know but she sure looks like it." The second girl responded.

What the hell is a Cullen? I wondered as I walked to my next class. I took a seat in the back and pulled out my phone since I was the first person in here I would need something to occupy my time. When I turned on my phone the screen showed that I had six missed calls, two voicemails, and thirteen new text messages. Scrolling through my texts I found that they were all from Kelsey and Riley, most of them said things like: Where are you? And OMFG Bella where the hell did you go?

I didn't have time to look at the calls because the teacher came waddling in. He was short, old, and very fat. He walked more like a penguin than a person and wore his glasses on the tip of his nose; his mouth was turned down in to a permanent frown. Some Botox and Liposuction would do you well my friend. I thought to myself and snickered quietly.

"Class we have a new student and I would like for her to come up and introduce herself." The teacher said. I stood and walked to the front of the class.

"My name is Bella Swan and I just moved here yesterday from New York." I said. It was actually quite difficult not to say that my mom was being a bitch and kicked me out.

"Is there anything else you would like to say Miss Swan?" the teacher asked

"Not really." I said and walked to my seat and sat down.

"Okay then, class turn to page one thirty six and do problems one through twelve then we'll work them on the board." He instructed

I opened up my book and started the equation. JK + H I –L/GT. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!? I looked through the back of the back of the book for the answers and wrote them down on my paper, taking my time since I didn't want to be the first one done.

"Okay Miss Swan would you please do the first equation." The teacher said. OH SHIT! I opened my mouth to argue my way out of it but he gave me this look that pretty much said 'no arguing now get your ass up here.' I nodded and walked towards the front of the room. In the front row there was this nerdy looking boy watching me, his paper sat on the corner of the desk closest to me. I looked past him and to the other side of the room making a disgusted looking face and the boy turned his head to see what I was looking at. I quickly grabbed his paper and put it on top of mine then walked up to the board and grabbed the marker.

I copied the boys work as confused as I was with all those letters and soon finished.

"Great job Bella. Courtney come up and do number two." The teacher spoke. As I walked by the boy I dropped the paper on the floor making it look like it had just fallen off. I took my seat and tried to pay attention to the work going on up front since I had no clue how to do any of that.

"Hey I'm Jessica." The girl next to me with the crazy, curly, brown hair said

"Hey." I said

"I saw the little stunt with the kid's paper, genius." She said appreciatively and laughed. I joined in just because I really didn't feel like being all bitchy and then probably end up starting a fight, which would not look good with my innocent act.

"So do you want to sit with me and my friends today at lunch?" she asked

"Um, sure." I said and shrugged my shoulders

"Great!" she said and then the bell rang dismissing us from our classes. Jessica and I exited the building then walked towards the cafeteria. Jessica led us through the line and I grabbed a diet coke and a salad, while she got a hamburger and French fries. I followed her over to a table where a bunch of kids sat and she introduced everyone to me.

They all were talking about some stupid trip to the beach- like it would ever be warm enough to go swimming here- when my phone started buzzing. I looked at the screen which read: Renee's Cell. Oh great this is exactly who I want to talk to right now, not!

"I'll be right back guys." I said as I grabbed my phone and walked away form the table. I went out the door and over to the fountain where I sat on the edge. I flipped open my phone and spoke,

"Hello mother."I said sarcastically, which apparently either she didn't pick up on that or she was just ignoring it.

"Bella, honey how's Forks?" she asked

"Oh you mean Hell, yeah it's just fine." More sarcasm

"Isabella you're the reason you're there. It was your decisions and actions that led to it so don't try and blame me for it." She said arrogantly

"Oh yeah and why the hell shouldn't I blame you? I make one freaking mistake and you ship me off, you could have at least given me a second chance!" I screamed into the phone

"Bella I have given you many chances and after the other night I was through giving you more. Sending you to Forks was me being the responsible parent and making a good decision that would help you in the future. Now you can choose to except that or keep on whining." She said

As I was about to say something I heard a male voice from her side of the line say: "Renee where are you? Aren't you coming back in?" the man sounding drunk and he was lacing his words with want.

"I was right wasn't I? You did only want me out of the house so you and your boyfriends can screw around and you wouldn't have to deal with me." I said angrily, "Yeah Renee, you're a great parent." I said with more sarcasm lacing my words then I thought possible. I snapped my phone shut and sighed with my head in my hands.

This really sucked.

Edward's point of view

My Spanish class had let out late so now I was a couple minutes late to lunch. As I was approaching I saw the new girl, Bella, sitting at the fountain, on her cell phone, in a heated discussion. I was being extremely nosy and decided to listen to see if I could find anything out on her since I was at a rare disadvantage of not being able to read her thoughts. I held my breath due to her scent swirling around me and listened in.

"Oh you mean Hell, yeah it's just fine." Bella said sarcastically to the person on the other side of the call.

"Isabella you're the reason you're there. It was your decisions and actions that led to it so don't try and blame me for it." A woman spoke, this seemed to make Bella very angry and she started shouting into the phone

"Oh yeah and why the hell shouldn't I blame you? I make one freaking mistake and you ship me off, you could have at least given me a second chance!" I still didn't know who Bella was talking to but I was betting it was her mother. But now I wanted to know what exactly this 'mistake' was.

"Bella I have given you many chances and after the other night I was through giving you more. Sending you to Forks was me being the responsible parent and making a good decision that would help you in the future. Now you can choose to except that or keep on whining." I was correct; it was her mother, though by the way Bella was talking to her it sounded like she was wishing for the exact opposite.

Bella opened her mouth to say something when a new voice came from the phone, "Renee where are you? Aren't you coming back in?" a male spoke. His words were slurred though it sounded like they were intended to be seductive. Bella's anger flared once again as she spoke

"I was right wasn't I? You did only want me out of the house so you and your boyfriends can screw around and you wouldn't have to deal with me. Yeah Renee, you're a great parent." She finished her response sarcastically and snapped her phone shut with a great deal of force.

She sighed, her shoulders slumped and she placed her head in her hands. The picture was so heartbreaking I wanted nothing more than to go comfort her for what had just happened. I froze, what was with me? Why was I suddenly feeling the need to go and comfort some human that is in more danger from me than anyone else?

I shook the thought from my head and walked into the cafeteria. I didn't even bother to buy food, I just walked straight to my table where my family was seated and sat down.

"What took you so long?" Emmett asked

"Spanish let out late." I replied. No need to mention that I was listening in to the new girl's conversation.

Liar. Alice's thoughts ran through my head. I glared at her and she giggled

"You know it's really annoying when you guys have those little conversations inside your heads." Emmett whined

"Trust me Emmett, you're lucky you don't have voices inside your head." I said. Emmett shrugged and turned his attention back to Rosalie.

Bella's point of view (sorry for switching so much but its necessary to hear this crap from the others too)

I walked back into the lunchroom and sat down at the table and sighed.

"Sorry about that guys, I had to take a call." I said

"Was it your boyfriend?" Jessica asked. Her eyes were glistening with expectation, just like Riley's were when she was getting some new gossip

"No, I don't have a boyfriend." I said.

"Really?" Jess asked

"Yeah the guys at my school were either preps or playboys, neither were quite my type." I explained and Jess nodded. While were sitting there a group of girls walked by and were once again talking about me

"Hey did you see the new girl?" one girl with red hair asked

"Yeah I think she's a Cullen, I mean look at her." The other said while jerking her chin in my direction

I turned my attention back to my table and spoke, "Ok what the hell is a Cullen?" I asked Jessica, who also had heard the girls' conversation.

"Don't worry being called Cullen is like the biggest compliment you can get here." She said and then continued, "They are the Cullens." As she spoke she pointed her finger towards a table where the kids I saw in the parking lot earlier today sat.

"Rosalie Hale and Jasper Hale are the blondes and they're twins. Emmett is the big guy, Alice is the shorter girl and Edward is the one with bronze hair, those three are all Cullens. Rosalie and Emmett are dating along with Jasper and Alice." She said the last part with disgust like they were committing some horrible crime, "And they all live together, but the only ones who are actually related are Rosalie and Jasper the rest are all adopted."

"Oh, but I still don't get why I was being called a Cullen. We don't look anything alike." I said. They were all extremely pretty and even though I was pretty I couldn't even compete with them

"Are you blind, you're gorgeous that's why people think you're related." Lauren, some stupid, preppy, blonde said. She didn't sound too pleased to admit that I was pretty.

"Whatever." I mumbled under my breath then grabbed my tray and went to throw it away. When I turned to walk out the door I ran into something hard and cold, I looked up and saw Emmett Cullen staring at me with an amused expression on his face.

(How many of you though she ran into Edward? Hehe)

"Oh shit I'm sorry." I said as I straightened myself. He laughed and then spoke,

"It's cool." He said and then walked towards Rosalie Hale.

I walked out of the cafeteria and to my next class which was biology. When I got in the room the only person there was the teacher. I walked over to him and asked where I could sit all he did was point me to a table and then walked out the door. Since I was the only person in the room so I took out my Ipod and scrolled through all of my songs until I found something decent, to keep me occupied. I listened to my music until kids started coming in then put up my Ipod.

Apparently I had been so lost in my music I hadn't noticed who was sitting by me now. Sitting as far away from me as he could in the limited space was Edward Cullen, looking gorgeous. I looked over at him and saw that his body was perfectly still, his chest remained still, there was no rising and falling from breathing like everyone else's did. His fists were clenched onto the table until the white skin on his knuckled turned even paler. Edward's eyes were staring intently at the clock like he couldn't wait to get out of here, though I couldn't blame him.

The teacher droned on and on about cellular anatomy or something gay like that while I waited eagerly for this day to be over. Occasionally I would glance over at Edward and notice that he still held his rigid posture and continued not breathing. The teacher gave us the last ten minutes to just chill out. I sat there tapping my pencil to Liar from Taking Back Sunday while humming it under my breath.

While I was strumming my pencil it miraculously managed to fly out from between my fingers and hit Edward on his shoulder then fall to the floor.

"Shit I'm sorry." I mumbled Edward didn't say anything instead he just nodded. "God, stuck up much?" I said so quietly I didn't think he would be able to hear but by the look that crossed his face I would be willing to guess that unfortunately he did.

I bent down and picked my pencil up off the floor. When I came back up my hair, which had been dangling in front of my face while I was retrieving my pencil, flung up and swished past Edward's face and behind my back, but the moment my hair had been in front of his face his eyes changed from topaz to flat black and gained this predatory look that scared the freaking shit out of me and jump started my heart. Edward's hand, which was still clutching the desk, moved and was heading towards me, before he reached me completely the bell rang and startled us both. He practically jumped out of his chair and ran faster than the best sprinter on the face of the earth out the door and down the hall.

I sat there in shock as my brain tried to register what the hell just happened.

Edward's point of view

I ran out of the building and into my car where I rolled down the windows and put in a CD to calm my nerves. I felt like beating my head against the steering wheel for everything that I had done today. This morning in the parking lot I would have attacked her if my family hadn't held me back and then in the classroom where she tossed her hair in front of my face I was so close to taking her out.

But I was utterly confused by what I had felt earlier when she sat on the fountain's edge and looked so miserable, I had felt like I needed to go comfort her and hold her and to assure her that everything was going to be ok. The want to kill her and want to comfort her simply couldn't coexist inside of me. They were two totally different things and one could simply not be accomplished while the other I refused for fear of my family's fate and I knew was very wrong.

So what could I do? I couldn't stay here and continue putting this girl in danger, I had to leave. I would leave for Denali tonight; the clan there would easily accept me. I shuddered as I thought of Tanya who would accept me before I even reached Alaska. Some people are just too hard to discourage.

Edward Cullen! You are not leaving or so help me god I will take your piano and smash it into a million pieces! Alice's thoughts rang through my head along with a visual of her smashing my piano as she had said. Of course, how naïve could I be to not expect Alice to see this and then try to stop it.

Edward I don't care how good this girl smells you will not leave. You're going to stay here and get over it! I've already seen this and do you have any idea how much pain you'll put Esme though by leaving and… I tuned Alice's thoughts out. She was right of course and I couldn't bear to cause Esme any pain, someone so sweet and caring didn't deserve to put through such hell as her first son running away.

With that thought in my head I decided I would stay and learn to accept the smell of Bella's mouth watering blood and make my family happing by staying. I leaned back in my seat and let the smell of the rain wash away the scent of her blood from my memories, though I could never really forget.

Bella's point of view

I walked from biology with shaking limbs from what had just occurred. The look on Edward's face was simply terrifying and what was he about to do? I shook the thoughts from my head and entered the gym. Oh joy, why did god hate me so?

"You must be the new kid." I heard a voice say. I turned around and saw and older man with brown hair standing by me.

"'The new kid' has a name." I said

"Ah yes Bella, is it?" he asked and I nodded, "Well I'm coach Clapp. You won't be required to participate today but tomorrow you will have to dress out." He said

"Actually I was wondering I f I could drop this class and get something else. I've already have gym since my freshman year." I said

"P.E is a required four year course here so there will be no switching, you will just have to put up with it for the remainder of your high school education or you can fail which would stick you in here for a few more years." He smirked, jackass. He placed a uniform in my hands and walked off.

"Who gives a shit if I fail gym?" I muttered and then flipped off the coach, (be honest how many of you have actually done that, because I know I have) of course he wasn't able to see but the other students did and they started snickering.

The coach ordered the students to start their five minute run that was a normal warm up for them, while I examined the guys. At least our gym class was mixed with seniors so there were some pretty hot guys in here. While looking around I saw a blonde head run past the others, I realized that it was Jasper Hale. Maybe he wouldn't be as weird as Edward was.

As I sat on the bleachers my phone started vibrating. I fumbled through my purse until I found it; the screen showed a picture of Kelsey and said that I had received a text from her.

Bella don't make me ask this again, where the hell are you? It read. I sighed, I really didn't feel like answering her question but eventually I knew I would have to.

Me: Renee sent me to Forks to live with my father because apparently I haven't been behaving well.

Kelsey: OMFG is this about the party the other night?

Me: Yeah, she didn't appreciate me coming home drunk and she sent me here thinking it would be like some rehab center.

Kelsey: God it must suck so bad, that town has like nothing there

Me: You have no clue how bad it is. Come save me!

Kelsey: No worries. We have break in two weeks so if you can stand it that long I'll come and take you.

I absolutely love Kelsey! That was something she would really do and I knew that she would if I wanted her to and I really wanted her to.

Me: Thank god for you

Kelsey: Yeah claps for me! Anyway I gotta go. Text you later!

Me: Bye

I put my phone back in my bag and waited to be released. Soon the bell rang and I flew out the door and to my car. I slid in and inhaled my car had the smell of new leather and strangely it seemed to calm me some. I pulled out of my spot and into the line of other cars that were trying to get off campus. I grabbed a burned CD that had all of my favorite songs on it and put it in. All Around Me by Flyleaf started playing and sang along with it.

I looked ahead of me and saw that the Volvo was the car in front of me. I saw Edward's eyes looking into his rear view mirror; he was wearing an amused expression. Had he heard me? No he couldn't have all of my windows are rolled up there's no possible way. Still I blushed at the thought of some one hearing me. Wait! I blushed? I never blushed, it just wasn't like me. I was never embarrassed about anything, I was outgoing and loud not the shy and quiet type. What the hell was wrong with me?

I sighed and the cars started moving. I drove off campus and towards 'home.'

I'm really sorry I haven't updated in forever, but now I know where I really want to go with this story so hopefully I'll be updating more often though I can't promise anything. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter; I had a really hard time writing it I think I must have rewritten it at least three times because it really sucked! I have three more weeks of school and then its summer break, thank god! So I'll be able to update more when we're out. My mom has been getting really pissed with me because I'm staying up 'til like three in the morning writing and I can't wait until I have endless writing time. Anyway R&R

Peace, ERIN